Visit this website to find definitions for the poetic devices on your worksheet.


Visit the links below to find examples of the above poetic devices. Copy the lines or words that showcase this element - not the whole poem - onto your worksheet.

For examples of alliteration, rhyme, and assonance, read: The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

For examples of simile, metaphor, and repetition, read: Still I Rise by Maya Angelou

For examples of imagery and personification, read: I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud by William Wordsworth

For examples of onomatopoeia, read: The Fourth by Shel Silverstein




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